Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-11-04 Thread Mick
On Saturday 01 November 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: actually it can also free up some ram, and your image is compressed using lzf which can achieve a claimed 30 - 50% but generally you should have enough free swap to cover the size of used RAM. Is the compression a tuxonice only feature, or has

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-11-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
Mick wrote: On Saturday 01 November 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: actually it can also free up some ram, and your image is compressed using lzf which can achieve a claimed 30 - 50% but generally you should have enough free swap to cover the size of used RAM. Is the compression a tuxonice only

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-11-02 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Murphy wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Walter Dnes[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran hibernate once unsuccessfully. I forgot to put resume= into my lilo.conf (oops). I finally did that, but now, hiberate

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-11-02 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 01:51:58PM -0400, Joshua Murphy wrote Umm... if you're hibernating to the same swap partition you're using when the system's live... I'm pretty sure you can't do that... even if everything does

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-11-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
Joshua Murphy wrote: On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Iain Buchanan[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I stand quite humbly corrected... this is what I get for leaving my old desktop running 24/7 unless kernel changes or power outtages interrupted. Now with my playing Combat Arms... and being limited

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-11-02 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Murphy wrote: On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Iain Buchanan[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I stand quite humbly corrected... this is what I get for leaving my old desktop running 24/7 unless kernel changes or power

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-10-31 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran hibernate once unsuccessfully. I forgot to put resume= into my lilo.conf (oops). I finally did that, but now, hiberate gets to... hibernate: Running /usr/sbin/s2disk ... s2disk: Could not use the resume device

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-10-31 Thread Walter Dnes
mkswap /dev/sda6 swapon /dev/sda6 Thanks, that worked. Having been bitten before by doing the obvious, I was wondering if something else was required. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-10-31 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 01:51:58PM -0400, Joshua Murphy wrote Umm... if you're hibernating to the same swap partition you're using when the system's live... I'm pretty sure you can't do that... even if everything does manage to fit, having sort out what belongs back in ram and what doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-10-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
Joshua Murphy wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Walter Dnes[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran hibernate once unsuccessfully. I forgot to put resume= into my lilo.conf (oops). I finally did that, but now, hiberate gets to... [snip] What did I did? And how do I straighten it out?

[gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-10-30 Thread Walter Dnes
I ran hibernate once unsuccessfully. I forgot to put resume= into my lilo.conf (oops). I finally did that, but now, hiberate gets to... hibernate: Running /usr/sbin/s2disk ... s2disk: Could not use the resume device (try swapon -a). Reason: No such device ...and backs out gracefully.

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-10-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
Walter Dnes wrote: I ran hibernate once unsuccessfully. I forgot to put resume= into my lilo.conf (oops). I finally did that, but now, hiberate gets to... hibernate: Running /usr/sbin/s2disk ... s2disk: Could not use the resume device (try swapon -a). Reason: No such device ...and backs